Out of Focus & Off Topic MkII...

trishw78

I merged this with the OOF thread not to supress discussion of his banning. If I want to supress discussion I would have locked and deleted the thread. And handed out more than one warning.

If you have a problem with his banning Help desk & feedback is where to take it.

rymus

aha, so you're the asshat :P

KarmaGarda

gandalf wrote: »

Still no helpdesk or feedback thread, not that important after all.

I personally am not looking for it. I'm kind of hinting here of a way they should proceed in my opinion as opposed to waiting for something to appear in helpdesk and hope to sweep it under the carpet.

I have no issues with most of the moderating that happens in the photography forum. But when something like this happens it's better to be proactive than reactive.

Fajitas!

rymus wrote: »

you werent even around when I was a mod you ****ing twat.

Rofl

And AR said there's no honesty on the forum

gandalf wrote: »

Still no helpdesk or feedback thread, not that important after all.

Bingo.

mrboswell

KarmaGarda wrote: »

I personally am not looking for it. I'm kind of hinting here of a way they should proceed in my opinion as opposed to waiting for something to appear in helpdesk and hope to sweep it under the carpet.

I have no issues with most of the moderating that happens in the photography forum. But when something like this happens it's better to be proactive than reactive.

Totally agree - I just think a public post might be a better option, that explains any infraction, so others can benefit from the clarification.

Rb

The biggest problem with Feedback and Helpdesk is that you're opening the discussion to a bunch of people who have no idea of the context and who, for the most part, will just support the moderators decision because they're moderators. I haven't seen such behaviour from the Photo mods on Feedback but there's a plethora of other mods waiting in the shadows ready to pounce in the defense of another moderators action and it can be incredibly frustrating to be at the receiving end of this behaviour by the circle jerk.

So if you're going to go to Feedback about it, be prepared

Helpdesk is, for the most part, useless. One poster vs the mods/cmod/admin who'll generally have eachothers back? Load of ****. Again though, not an issue I've seen with the mods here so wouldn't expect the same outcome.

KarmaGarda

I did say *most* of the moderating . But I personally don't see the point in complaining. They have a hard enough job as it is.

And I have a fair idea of the banning reason already.

mrboswell

KarmaGarda wrote: »

I did say *most* of the moderating . But I personally don't see the point in complaining. They have a hard enough job as it is.

And I have a fair idea of the banning reason already.

Maybe you can share it with us?

KarmaGarda

I didn't give the ban. So I could be wrong. Let's just say I've added 2 and 2. Might have got 5 though :pac:

mrboswell

KarmaGarda wrote: »

I didn't give the ban. So I could be wrong. Let's just say I've added 2 and 2. Might have got 5 though :pac:

Lets say, hypothetically speaking, that you did give the ban. Why would you have done so....?

AnimalRights

rymus wrote: »

you werent even around when I was a mod you ****ing twat.

You are so damned sexy when ure angry, I could shove my Tongue in your mouth, do suck on a few polos b4 hand as I have standards like.
XX

KarmaGarda

Hypothetically speaking, if I was a moderator?

I'd then tell you to post in helpdesk or feedback if you had a problem

trishw78

AnimalRights wrote: »

You are so damned sexy when ure angry, I could shove my Tongue in your mouth, do suck on a few polls b4 hand as I have standards like.
XX

oh stop you're making me feel sick.

rymus

yup. still a twat.

mrboswell

KarmaGarda wrote: »

Hypothetically speaking, if I was a moderator?

I'd then tell you to post in helpdesk or feedback if you had a problem

But I don't hypothetically have a problem (that I know of)

AnimalRights

Are u denying his sexuality Trish?

KarmaGarda

mrboswell wrote: »

But I don't hypothetically have a problem (that I know of)

Basically, if I started discussing why I thought he got the ban would I then get a warning? I don't know. It's already been mentioned that this was moved to off topic instead of handing out warnings so I'm going to keep my own opinions to myself.

But, hypothetically speaking, if my opinion of why a person may have been banned is true, then I might probably be of the opinion that it's horrifically harsh. All my hypothetical opinion of course :pac:

Fajitas!

Pffft. Why are people complaining - I haven't seen posts as funny as this in yonks.

Kintarō Hattori

My apologies if it seems like I'm speaking out of place/or whatever but I have to say I'm a little disappointed with some of the posts I'm seeing here today.

I haven't been active very long in this forum, only about the last 18months or so and by and large it's a great place to be. Everyone is generally very helpful and pleasant and the mods do a great job. From what I know this is absolutely not what the photography forum used to be, it was cut throat, lots of abuse being hurled about etc. As I said though, in the time that I've been here it's been excellent and the forum I frequent the most.

I'm a little disappointed by all the smart ass comments I've seen today, the bitching at one another and the down right rude remarks. While we don't know the reasons behind banning isn't it a bit much to assume there is some big mod conspiracy going on to keep it quiet. And what is with all the anti-mod sentiment today?

Like I said, I wasn't around when the place was bad and if today is a reflection of how those times were I'm glad I wasn't. Don't let it slip back to that.

mrboswell

Fair enough KarmaGarda.

Fajitas!

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

From what I know this is absolutely not what the photography forum used to be, it was cut throat, lots of abuse being hurled about etc.

I think you got the wrong forum there, then...

DaireQuinlan

Fajitas! wrote: »

I think you got the wrong forum there, then...

Oh the memories. Full frame sensors at dawn. Blood spattered across the viewfinders. Having to clean brains off the end of the lens. BRAINS. I asks ya.

rymus

those truly were the good days.

KarmaGarda

Fair enough Fajitas! Here's my complaint.

I think you're smelly. I live in the opposite side of london than you and I get wafts of farts drifting over the Thames. I'm putting an official compaint in with the department of health about you.

kensutz

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

I'm a little disappointed by all the smart ass comments I've seen today, the bitching at one another and the down right rude remarks.

We're all grown ups

rymus

he has a point.. you do fart a lot.

+1 to the complaint

mrboswell

Please don't jump down my throat (members or mods)

As we are all part of an on-line photography community would it be a suitable idea to open a new thread with a poll of ideas as to how the members of this community can help it evolve in such a way as to make all members feel as though they have an equal say.

Can photography on boards be somewhat "self regulating" ??

Fajitas!

KarmaGarda wrote: »

Fair enough Fajitas! Here's my complaint.

I think you're smelly. I live in the opposite side of london than you and I get wafts of farts drifting over the Thames. I'm putting an official compaint in with the department of health about you.

You think they're farts!?!

Oh dear.

rymus

we had one of those threads a couple of years back. It evolved into possibly the biggest argument that was ever had on boards. People were banned because of that thread alone. That was a fun week.

Fajitas!

mrboswell wrote: »

Can photography on boards be somewhat "self regulating" ??

Well, in a perfect world, that'd work, but unfortunately, on forums as large as this, with as many personalities, different content, opinions, etc, it just dosn't work.

To be fair, moderators are picked from the current users, based on who's online, helpful, and would progress the forum.

Otherwise, there'd be absolute chaos.